I don’t think humanity is going to continue to agree to what is government approved torturing of people who have already undergone trauma. I don’t think humanity wants to be inhumane. So eventually those people who have altered states of consciousness and unusual sensory experiences won’t be subjected to a forced psychiatric regime, by the fearful public, who if they were better would never approve of such things as ECT and forced drugging.

·Mandatory
informing of harmful effects of psych drugs, withdrawal effects of drugs. Psychiatrists who do not inform their patients should be legally liable.

·Allow
for people grieving, particularly those involved in bushfires. Don’t give them
a psychiatric label as if there is something wrong with them! Get
person-centred empathetic counselling to help people move through their trauma. Give them some help through Centrelink until they're rehabilitated. Don't necessitate that they agree that they have a 'mental illness'. Grief and trauma are not illness, but they do play havoc with people's lives. The more support a person gets the better, quicker they are able to be enabled.

·Fund
businesses to set up retreats for people to overcome emotional crisis. (Some people who suffer crisis actually do have money, but there aren't enough such retreats available even for money to buy, at present, in this country.)

·Allow
those suffering to speak publically about their experiences so that those
suffering similarly can feel that they are being heard. Don’t shut down what is
hard to listen to. Allow psychiatric survivors to gain the public's ear and be witnessed and validated.

·Government
needs to cease psychiatric abuse immediately. Dismantle the systems that
perpetuated the abuse for decades and apologise.

·Voices
and other percipience needs to be understood better by the public, so there isn’t
fear/ stigma in relating to unusual, strange symbolism.

·Access
to career development/ therapy for those who don’t fit into conventional job
roles easily, who may also be isolated/ alienated from the community. Allowing for intelligent invention. (Many people with diagnosis are actually educated and talented, just need to work through their inventions with others so they can be grounded in what society needs, so these innovations can come to fruition.)

·Cease
funding psychiatry, but fund those who need to withdraw/ stay on psych drugs
because that’s what they’re used to and can’t afford the stress of not having
what they’re used to.

Set up Open Dialogue, that has proven results in other countries, as well as Voice Dialoguing, also proven to work in helping a person recover from crisis. (This will be far less expensive than hospitalisation and psychiatric services, pharmaceuticals etc in the long run.)

(Something like that. The Human Dignity Party should be open to anyone who wishes to add, or comment on that list. The Human Dignity Party should listen and support diversity, social-justice, difference and much needed change.)

But there is no Human Dignity Party in Australia as far as I know... So who do I vote for on my birthday?

Labor? bugger them… they use the
term ‘mentally ill’

‘Mental Health

In May 2011,
Labor announced a $2.2 billion mental health package to be rolled
out over five years. It includes: more and better coordinated services for the
severely mentally ill, expanded community mental health programs, more funding
for psychological services, e-mental health, expanded youth-focused programs
and a Mental Health Commission to produce an annual Mental Health Report Card.
The Coalition says the package borrowed heavily from its 2010 election
promises. Health spokesman Peter Dutton told the ABC in June that the Coalition would be
"reassessing" mental health policy, and would make announcements
closer to the election.’

The Greens? (usually get my
vote,but…)

The Greens say,
aren’t we good we’ll get psychiatric treatment for refugees.

Is the Greens
party completely ignorant of what peak psychiatric bodies and their
psychiatrists do for a living? Are they completely ignorant of how torturous
forced drugging with neuroleptics is? Does the Greens party not know these
psych drugs and electro-shock cause brain-damage? How horrible! How stupid! Do
that not know how many angry people will now not vote for them because of their
cruel policy medicalising trauma? Do they never hear angry psychiatric
survivors speak? Are they that ignorant of the human-rights needs in this
country? Human rights that don’t take money, but just need ugly rich
psychiatrists no longer allowed to experiment on people with torturous
chemicals. Yes, experiment, all patients of psychiatrists in hospitals, have the information about them, go into charts and
stats, without their knowledge, against their will.

‘REFUGEE
HEALTH AND WELLBEING

The old parties are risking the health and wellbeing of thousands of
refugees, including children, by dumping them in appalling conditions in Nauru
and Papua New Guinea. A caring nation looks after people fleeing persecution
and their physical and mental health.

In the rush to set up cruel detention camps and slum cities, there is no
plan for independent oversight of refugees’ health and care. The old parties
are committed to dumping all refugees who come by boat out-of-sight,
out-of-mind in the poorest nations in our region, with no safeguards for their
medical and mental health needs.

Reports from whistle-blowers and the UNHCR already tell us that
conditions in the camps are harsh and dangerously inadequate, but there is no
transparency about what is happening in Australia’s name.’

Greens… um, this means
you will be subjecting refugees to forced drugging. That’s what RANZCP,
Australia’s peak psychiatric body does. You do know that don’t you? Why would
you subject traumatised people to the torture of neuroleptics and other
psychiatric drugs?

I’m searching, searching, searching for a Senate Candidate that wants to
stop psychiatric abuse. Who the hell am I going to vote for? The UN has
declared forced psychiatric drugging and electro-shock as torture. Even Israel
has stopped forced electro-shock. Australia continues, oblivious, ignorant…
calling it ‘care’.

Australia is so
dumbed down, it can’t hear our voices. Pathetic. I’m ashamed of this country.

I really have no
one to vote for.Or so I thought...Just putting an after-thought in this blog, because I have found,The Socialist Alliance says it, 'will guarantee patients'
control by legislating the right of access to all information required for
informed consent; the right to appoint a legal guardian of a patient's choice;
the right to choose or refuse medical treatment; the right to choose
contraception appropriate to the patient and abortion as required. Hospitals to
be forced to admit their surgical, pharmacological and other nosocomial
mistakes as a matter of due process.’But none for the Socialist Alliance are standing in the House of Representatives in my area. And none for Senate in my state. Boo. I still have no one to vote for.

4 comments:

Excellent call Initially NO, keep condensing, keep crystallizing; keep working policy into actionable Private member's Bill and Private Senator's bill and lobby for its introduction into the House of representatives. Form supporters around you and draft these vital documents from the UN and Israeli legislatures and embed their content into your own designed for AustraliaGlenn

Okay, this sounds promising in stopping psychiatric abuse: ‘The Socialist Alliance will guarantee patients' control by legislating the right of access to all information required for informed consent; the right to appoint a legal guardian of a patient's choice; the right to choose or refuse medical treatment; the right to choose contraception appropriate to the patient and abortion as required. Hospitals to be forced to admit their surgical, pharmacological and other nosocomial mistakes as a matter of due process.’ http://www.socialist-alliance.org/policy/health/health-charter

(Just got a reply email) PUTTING A STOP TO PSYCHIATRIC ABUSE Peter Whelan, National President of Liberal Democratic Party says, of psychiatric abuse, ‘this was brought to my attention prior to last (2010) election. We are most definitely against such forced treatments. I seem to recall we put out a media release against it at the time. My own Solicitor had been involved in legal cases, representing those forced to undergo such treatment against their will.’ This will be on the Senate ballot, candidate in all States (not Territories) www.ldp.org.au